Documentary by Lee Globe Apollonia, ApolloniaParis-based painter Apolonia Sokol’s portrait of 13 years has won the Best Film Award at the 2022 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival.
The honor, announced at an awards ceremony in Amsterdam on Thursday night, comes with a €15,000 ($15,000) cash prize.
The Danish director put together her documentary from several meetings with Sokol, who traced the artist’s development and reflected on her personal and professional obsessions, including art, love, motherhood, sexuality, queerness, capitalism and patriarchy.
IDFA’s EnVision competition category went to Angie Vincitos for Best Film and its $15,000 cash prize. ManifestoA found-footage doc compiled from videos posted on social media by Russian teenagers.
Simon Chambers received IDFA’s Best Director honor in the international category and a €5,000 ($5,200) cash prize. Much ado about dying, a touching, often very funny look at Chambers’ Uncle David in the last years of his life. Roberta Torre received Best Direction honors in the Envision competition category and $5,200, wonderful ones, A documentary about villa-dwelling transgender women who try to fulfill the last wish of their late friend, who was buried in male clothing against her will.
2022 IDFA runs till Sunday.
The complete list of 2022 IDFA winners follows.
Best picture International competition
Apollonia, Apollonia, dir. Lee Globe
Best Direction International Competition
Much ado about dying, dir. Simon Chambers
Best Editing International Competition
Journey through our worldEditor Mario Steenbergen
Best Cinematography International Competition
heavenPhotographer Paul Guilhoume
Best Film Idea Contest
Manifesto, dir. MG Vincito
Best Direction Idea Competition
The Fabulous Ones, dir. Roberta Torre
Best Artistic Contribution Idea Competition
My lost country, dir. Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
Special mention idea contest
Notes for the film, dir. Ignacio Aguero
IDFA DocLab Award for Immersive Nonfiction
In Search of Repeated Beats, dir. Darren Emerson
Special Jury Award for Creative Technology
plastysapiens, dir. Miri Cherkhanovich and Edith Zorish
DFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling
He fucked the girl out of me, dir. Taylor McCue
Special Jury Award for Creative Technology
His name is my name, dir. Elaine Jongsma and Kel O’Neill.
IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary
distance, dir. Ruslan Fedotov
Special Mention Short Documentary
porters, dir. Sarah Vanagt
IDFA Award for Best Youth Film (14+)
Home is somewhere else, dir. Carlos Hagerman and Jorge Villalobos.
IDFA Award for Best Youth Film (9-13)
Ramboy, dir. Mathias Joulaud
Special mention youth film
Jasmine’s two houses, dir. Inka Achte and Hanna Karpinen
IDFA Award for Best First Feature
Etilat Rose, dir. Abbas Rezai
Special mention first feature
Guapoi, dir. Sophia Paoli Thorne
IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film
Journey through our world, dir. Petra Lataster-Czysz and Peter Lataster
Special mention Best Dutch film
inside my heart, dir. Saskia Boddeke
Beeld and Geluid IDFA Reframe Award
A private scene, dir. Nagata was born
Special mention to Beeld and Geluid IDFA Reframe Award
March on Rome, dir. Mark Cousins
IDFA Forum Award for Best Pitch
Nix, dir. Connie LaPuerta
IDFA Forum Award for Best Rough Cut
Tuba Thieves, dir. Alison O’Daniel
IDFA DocLab Forum Award
We speak their names in hushed tones, dir. Omoregie Osakpolor